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Within most U.S. cities, people of color are more likely to live in areas of high Surface Urban Heat Island Intensity than white people in the same cities. According to a study by climatologist Angel Hsu and colleagues, "the average person of color lives in a census tract with higher SUHI intensity than non-Hispanic whites in all but 6 of the ...
Forecasters are warning that there is a more dangerous aspect to heat waves these days: overnight temperatures are not cooling down enough Why nighttime heat can be so dangerous – and why it’s ...
A new color-coded heat warning system relies on magenta to alert Americans to the most dangerous conditions they may see this summer. ... and other urban heat ... with outdoor heat and people ...
A definition of urban heat island is: "The relative warmth of a city compared with surrounding rural areas." [14]: 2926 This relative warmth is caused by "heat trapping due to land use, the configuration and design of the built environment, including street layout and building size, the heat-absorbing properties of urban building materials, reduced ventilation, reduced greenery and water ...
In urban areas people are at an increased susceptibility to hyperthermia. This is due to a phenomenon called the urban heat island effect. [36] Since the 20th century in the United States, the north-central region (Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Iowa, and Nebraska) was the region with the highest morbidity resulting from hyperthermia.
“I’ve never been out here like this,” said one person who goes to shelters for a break from the heat. “You can see the heat, it rose like cartoon smoke off the concrete.”
Scorching heat across the U.S. already has caused more than a dozen deaths in Texas alone and led to mounting misery for millions of people from the Pacific Northwest to the South.
Increased urban land use and occupation alters the local thermal field resulting in the development of warmer regions known as urban heat islands (UHIs). [8] An urban heat island is a phenomenon where these surface temperature deviations and air in the lowest levels of the atmosphere are concentrated in urban areas and those immediately ...